Acting · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · Born June 30, 1917
Susan Hayward (June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress. After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone With the Wind (1939). Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting roles over the next few years. By the late 1940s the quality of her film roles had improved, and she achieved recognition for her dramatic abilities with the first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance as an alcoholic in Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947). Her career continued successfully through the 1950s and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of death row inmate Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958). By this time, Hayward was married and living in Georgia and her film appearances became infrequent, although she continued acting in film and television until 1972. She died in 1975 following a long battle with brain cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Hayward, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
MovieFilme Algarve
2025
as Lucy Overmire (archive footage)
MovieThe Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Storm in My Heart
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
2009
as Self (archive)
MovieGotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
2006
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
The Divine Ms. Susann
2006
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Dish on Dolls
2006
as Helen Lawson (archive footage)
Bride of Trailer Camp
2001
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSay Goodbye, Maggie Cole
1972
as Dr. Maggie Cole
MovieThe Revengers
1972
as Elizabeth Reilly
MovieHeat of Anger
1972
as Jessie Fitzgerald
MovieValley of the Dolls
1967
as Helen Lawson
MovieValley of the Dolls: A World Premiere Voyage
1967
as Herself
MovieThe Honey Pot
1967
as Mrs. Sheridan
MovieUncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
MovieWhere Love Has Gone
1964
as Valerie Hayden Miller
MovieStolen Hours
1963
as Laura Pember
MovieI Thank a Fool
1962
as Christine Allison
MovieHollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self - Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieBack Street
1961
as Rae Smith
MovieAda
1961
as Ada Gillis
MovieThe Marriage-Go-Round
1961
as Content Delville
MovieWoman Obsessed
1959
as Mary Sharron
MovieThunder in the Sun
1959
as Gabrielle Dauphin
MovieI Want to Live!
1958
as Barbara Graham
MovieTop Secret Affair
1957
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
MovieThe Conqueror
1956
as Bortai
MovieI'll Cry Tomorrow
1955
as Lillian Roth
TVMGM Parade
1955
MovieSoldier of Fortune
1955
as Mrs. Jane Hoyt
MovieUntamed
1955
as Katie O'Neill
MovieGarden of Evil
1954
as Leah Fuller
MovieDemetrius and the Gladiators
1954
as Messalina
MovieWhite Witch Doctor
1953
as Ellen Burton
MovieThe President's Lady
1953
as Rachel Donaldson
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
MovieThe Lusty Men
1952
as Louise Merritt
MovieThe Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
as Helen Street
MovieWith a Song in My Heart
1952
as Jane Froman
MovieDavid and Bathsheba
1951
as Bathsheba
MovieI Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951
as Harriet Boyd
MovieRawhide
1951
as Vinnie Holt
MovieI'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951
as Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
MovieMy Foolish Heart
1950
as Eloise Winters
MovieHouse of Strangers
1949
as Irene Bennett
MovieTulsa
1949
as Cherokee Lansing
MovieThe Saxon Charm
1948
as Janet Busch
MovieTap Roots
1948
as Morna Dabney
TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
MovieThe Lost Moment
1947
as Tina Bordereau
MovieThey Won't Believe Me
1947
as Verna Carlson
MovieSmash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947
as Angie Evans
MovieCanyon Passage
1946
as Lucy Overmire
MovieDeadline at Dawn
1946
as June Goffe
MovieAnd Now Tomorrow
1944
as Janice Blair
MovieThe Hairy Ape
1944
as Mildred Douglas
Skirmish on the Home Front
1944
as Molly Miller
MovieThe Fighting Seabees
1944
as Constance Chesley
MovieJack London
1943
as Charmian Kittredge
MovieHit Parade of 1943
1943
as Jill Wright
MovieYoung and Willing
1943
as Kate Benson
MovieI Married a Witch
1942
as Estelle Masterson
MovieThe Forest Rangers
1942
as Tana 'Butch' Mason
MovieA Letter From Bataan
1942
as Mrs. Mary Lewis
MovieReap the Wild Wind
1942
as Drusilla Alston
MovieStar Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Genevieve in Priorities Skit
MovieAmong the Living
1941
as Millie Pickens
MovieSis Hopkins
1941
as Carol Hopkins
MovieAdam Had Four Sons
1941
as Hester Stoddard
Movie$1,000 a Touchdown
1939
as Betty McGlen
MovieOur Leading Citizen
1939
as Judith Schofield
MovieBeau Geste
1939
as Isobel Rivers
MovieComet Over Broadway
1938
as Amateur Actress (uncredited)
MovieGirls on Probation
1938
as Gloria Adams
MovieThe Sisters
1938
as Telephone operator
MovieHollywood Hotel
1938
as Starlet at Table (uncredited)
